Who's Who in the Street Art Scene

Take a look at this article from Streetsy.com, 40+ Street Artists You Should Know Besides Banksy.

Great Stuff from graffiti to stncils to wheatpastes and posters... its all in there and some of the most innovative and prolific heads in the street art scene are featured. Some pictures from the article:


(c215)


(Thundercut)


(Swoon)

Ron Mueck, Hyperrealist Sculptor

I was amazed to see Ron Mueck's sculptures and had to pass this along...


("A Girl")

Ron Mueck is an Australian-born hyperrealist who used to work in the burgeoning animatronics field of the 80s and 90s, most notably working with Jim Henson and on the movie, The Labrynth.


("Mask II")

Check out more pictures of his work at the Washington Post.

More Digital Projections

Here's another recent video about digital projections as public art, this time from French design and 3D video mapping group EasyWeb. EasyWeb's creators have more of an architectural focus, playing with the forms and volumes of the buildings onto which the images are projected. Great stuff...



(video found at NotCot)

Good Local Shots

(Left to Right, Top to Bottom: MERJE ENDS; MERJE ENDS; "You love me so much its ridiculous"; NEM NUS WREKS; Door tags; GRAMS)

Final Friday in Cincy

Friday night was Cincinnati's Final Friday Gallery Walk. I decided to check out the galleries along Main St. in stead of going to the Pendleton Arts Center. Jake Constantine 's "A Comma in the Sky" exhibition at the Creative Gallery was playful, exploring the media's influence on life, culture and art. His show hangs until March 25 and the Creative Gallery is at 1315 Main St... check it out.

(I laughed out loud when I saw the VHS in a casket... maybe it was the wine, but I still think its pretty fun)

Just a couple doors down, Andrew Neyer showed his "Pick a Pocket" series of large cut-out figures painted with acrylic at the 1305 Gallery. Each figure has an over-sized pocket with a wallet inside for you to rummage through.


At the Chamber offices, Visionaries and Voices artist Kevin White showed his work, "Life on Canvas"... intense color palettes, patterns of lines and dots.


And at Peaslee Neighborhood Center, Tim Freeman has his photography up in the main lobby. I didn't get any pictures, but think grainy inner-city portraits and cityscapes on textured paper.

After the galleries, some friends and I went down to the Contemporary Arts Center, who has rejoined the event line-up for final fridays. CAC presents CAC Contemporary Fridays, a post-gallery walk event with DJs spinning tracks, drinks and dancing. It was a fun time with a decent turn out, but we walked in on a series of older rock ballad-type songs that (to me) was quite off-putting. Once some Michael Jackson remixes came on, I was a happy camper :) Not quite sure how the event is profitable, seeing as though I watched a number of people come in without paying a cover (myself included) and the amount of staff on hand seemed like over-kill. But oh well, not my problem.

Around 11:30 we headed over to Gypsy Hut in Northside to see GLUE... great live performance as always. If you can check them out.

Meet the Barnstormers...

These guys have been doing their thing out of NYC for some time. Their motion paintings take days (and sometimes weeks) to complete. A stop-action camera records the work as it is being painted and the end result is a film that captures the evolution of the work. They incorporate many styles (including a heavy dose of graf!), often improvising as they go. This is one of my favorites ("Letter to the President")... the use of text is great. Take a look at their website www.b-stormers.com and search their videos on youtube.